Ellen Foster by Kay Gibbons

Ellen Foster by Kay Gibbons

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Ellen Foster by Kay Gibbons

Winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation's Citation for Fiction. An eleven-year-old heroine tells her unforgettable story with honesty, perceptivity, humor, and unselfconscious heroism. The honesty of thought and eye and feeling and word --Eudora Welty; A lovely, breathtaking, sometimes heart-wrenching first novel.--Walker Percy. A LITERARY GUILD SELECTION.

KAYE GIBBONS is the best-selling author of seven books. The American Academy of Arts and Letters gave her the Sue Kaufman Award for her first novel, Ellen Foster, as well as a special commendation from the Ernest Hemingway Foundation. Oprah's Book Club chose that novel, as well as A Virtuous Woman. Gibbons is a Raleigh, North Carolina resident.

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ISBN 13 9780679728665
ISBN 10 067972866X
Title Ellen Foster
Author Kay Gibbons
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Random House USA Inc
Year published 1990-05-12
Number of pages 126
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